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November 3, 2009

STARTING A DAIRY FARM

Filed under: Agriculture, ChangeIndia, Dairy — Shankar Manickam @ 10:06 am

Decide when the below conditions are satisfied

1)      Selection of land in suitable weather and geographic area

2)      Demand of milk and suitable Society

3)      Affordable land for Fodder cultivation

4)      Water and Electricity supplies

5)      Availability of the suitable breeds of cow

PROCEDURES:

1)      Bank loan process

There are many nationalized banks are encouraging the farmers for this project.

State Bank of India tops among them. SBI needs the below documents for the same.

# Collateral agreement between the supplier and the milk collecting agency.

# Land Ownership supporting documents/ Lease agreement for tenure more than EMI period

# Savings account

# IT statements

# No Loan certificate from the existing savings account

# Mortgage of the same dairy land

2)      Infrastructure makeup:

The Shedding for the cow is very important to facilitate the cows. It should withstand with the weather conditions and other dangers.

The roof of the shelter should be sufficient tall for ventilation.

Model of the shedding is below

Roof, Fodder Canal, Drainage and Flooring explained below

Cow Shed

Model of the shelter(near to Perur, Coimbatore, India)

BLOCKS

The blocks are shown inside

Pavement:

Makes the fodder handler to walk inside and serve the fodders appropriately.

Ceiling:

It should be at least double the height of the cow to give the proper ventilation.

Drainage

Drainage:

The urine and dung are collected thru this canal in a big tank to make the composite fertilize

3)      Fodder Management

INCOMPLETE

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